Sketches by Caroline Lady Trevelyan.
Caroline Philips, Lady Trevelyan (1849-1928)
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
1873 - 1879
Materials
bookcloth, paper
Measurements
262 x 325 mm; 44 mm (thickness)
Collection
Wallington, Northumberland
NT 3064460
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Landscape Text Substrate: Album leaves of stiff machine-made card with meeting guards and textile hinges. The watercolours on handmade watercolour paper. Interleaved with loose sheets of slightly oversize acid-free tissue. Ink/Pigment: The leaves have been annotated to identify the pictures in a contempary fountain-pen ink.Type: BOUND BOOKBinding Type: Case binding, bds & coverDate of Binding: contemporaryBinder's Name: EnglishEnd Leaves: tipped single-fold of grey, machine-made, wove paperStructure: British Edges: plain-cut, not decoratedSpine Lining: moderate round, no joints, lined with mull and paperEnd Bands: NoneBookmark: NineBoards: 4mm strawboard with full bevel on all four external edgesCovering: full pebble-grain green bookclothTooling Spine: 5 gold-blocked three-line fillets across the spine. Tooling Sides: Front:blocked in gold with a large rectangular geometrical frame within a broad gold 2-line frame, the centre filled witjh a repeating fish-scale panel . Back board has a blind-blocked two-line frame.Furniture: NoneEnclosure: BookshoeBinding Notes:
Bibliographic description
30 leaves.. Watercolours and pencil and pen and ink sketches of continental scenes on different sized and weights of paper pasted onto album sheets. Price of 8/6 in pencil on pastedown.. Binding: Green cloth album; gilt extra; paper labels on spine and front board. Vol. 3 written in pencil on label and flyleaf. Bookshoe.
Provenance
Gift from Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan 3rd Bt
Makers and roles
Caroline Philips, Lady Trevelyan (1849-1928)